Buck Buchanan
(formerly published as Buck McCrary) received his Master's
in English Literature from the University of South Florida. He's written
hundreds of poems, three novels and is currently compiling a collection of
short stories.

Toni de Bonneval works as an institutional
historian, recent publications include stories in Carolina Quarterly,
Other Voices and Ascent. Her stories are forthcoming in West
Branch, Crone's Nest, and Nebraska Review.

Nate Chinen currently works as Assistant Coordinator at the Kelly
Writers House and writes jazz reviews for the Philadelpia City Paper. He
recently completed his undergraduate work in poetry at the University of
Pennsylvania.

Jessica Chiu is a Biological Basis of Behavior major at the
University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Cumyn is a contributing editor at The Blue Moon
Review. His two books of short-stories are The Limit of Delta Y
Over Delta X (Goose
Lane Editions) and I Am Not Most Places (Beach Holme Publishing).
Recent stories have appeared on-line in Eclectica and The
Mississippi Review.

Linh Dinh is the editor and
co-translator of Night Again: Contemporary Fiction From Vietnam
(Seven Stories Press 1996). He has published poems, short stories and
translations in Sulfur, American Poetry Review, Threepenny Review,
Denver Quarterly, Manoa and New Observations, among other
journals. New work is forthcoming in New American Writing.

Annette Earling is managing editor of CrossConnect and
publishes an occasional column in the Philadelphia City Paper.

Christopher Fielder lives and writes in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago. His books of poetry,
Shoreline and Medicine Signs, are published by Alphabeta Press. He
was the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards for his poem
"Three Poems for Kabbalah," which appeared in Fish Stories Collective
2.

David Graham teaches English at Ripon College in Wisconsin, where
he also
coordinates the Writing Program. His poems have been collected in 4 print
editions, most recently *Second Wind* (Texas Tech University
Press).

Kimiko Hahn won the American Book Award in 1996 for her last book
of poems entitled The Unbearable Heart. She also received the
Theodore Roethke Poetry award for her previous book, Earshot, as
well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New
York Foundation for the Arts. Her other books include Air Pocket
and We Stand Our Ground. She is currently a professor of poetry
writing and literature at Queens College/CUNY.

Jeannette Harris is the Publisher and Editor of O Shenandoah!
Country Rag.

Ray Heinrich lives and writes in Washington D.C., his work appeared
in the first print volume of CrossConnect.

Stanley Jenkins' stories have appeared in Amelia, 32 Pages,
Eclectica and in the upcoming Blue Moon Review.

Joel B. Kaylor is an independent interior renovations contractor
based in Philadelphia. He has an MFA in Ceramic Arts from the University
of Puget Sound and has taught and exhibited extensively on both coasts.
His current project is helping to organize the annual Show for Lesbian and
Gay Artists opening June 5 at the Highwire Gallery in downtown
Philadelphia.

Scott Kramer is a poet, performer and producer who recently
received his M.A. in English from Northern Arizona University. Kramer's
poems have appeared in the first web issue and the first print issue of
XConnect Kramer is a freelance writer who resides in Philadelphia.

Robert Lehmann has had fiction published in Gypsy, Vietnam
Big Book, Barking Spider, JCAMI, Anathema. and Pif.

Teresa Leo is a staff writer at the University of Pennsylvania.
Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Philadelphia
Inquirer and elsewhere.

Jennifer Linden is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer who
lives and works in Philadelphia.

James Brian Livingstone
is a 44 year old medical doctor, who practices
emergency and family medicine with a smidgeon of allergy consultation
work added in for good measure. He has been published in a number of
literary magazines including the Poetry Cafe, the Astrophysic's
Partner Tango Speaks, and Eclectica Magazine.

John McCalla is a freelance writer who lives and works in
Philadelphia. His work has been published in many sources, including the
New York Times and the Philadelphia City Paper. He authors a
weekly column
in the Philadelphia Daily News.

John Murphy is currently exhibiting in the Group Identity Show at
the
Philadelphia Art Alliance through March 22nd and at the
Main Line Art Center in Ardmore, PA, where he was awarded the Bogash and
Heicklin Award for his works in paper.

John Norton has recently completed a novella "Re: marriage" and
is working on a hypertext narrative "Nondisclosure Statements." His
book of prose poems and sketches The Light at the End of the Bog (San
Francisco: Black Star Series, 1989, 1992) won an American Book Award.

Charles O'Hay is the recipient of a 1994-95 fellowship in poetry
from the Pennslyvania Council on the Arts. His work has appeared in
American Poetry Review, West Branch, Brooklyn Review, New York
Quarterly among others. His most recent chapbook, Curio was
published by Kali Momma Press.

Aaren Yeatts Perry is the recipient of a 1990 Writing Fellowship
from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has worked for ten years as
a Philadelphia-based poet, writer, and cultural activist. He teaches
poetry in elementary and middle schools in the region. He is Technical
Director of mainstage productions at the Painted Bride Art Center. He has
published recently in The Blue Guitar, The Painted Word, Painted Bride
Quarterly, Long Shot Review, and other magazines. His book, Poetry
Across the Curriculum, will be published by Allyn and Bacon in 1997.

Sue Scalf's latest collection is South by Candlelight,
just published by Elk
River Review Press and nominated for a Pulitizer. She has three other
university and small-press collections. Recent work appears in The
Chattahooche Review.

Ruth Knafo Setton has received a number awards, including NEA
US/Mexico Creative Artist Fellowship, PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award
and two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships among others. Her
work has been widely published in journals and anthologies, including
Mediterraneans, International Quarterly, Tikkun, New Directions for
Women, Changing Images of Women in American Jewish Fiction,
Sephardic-American Voices: Two Hundred Years of Literary Legacy. She
teaches World Women's Literature, Creative Writing and Jewish Literature
at Lafayette College. She has just completed her first novel,
Suleika.

Barbara Tran's poems have been published in Antioch Review,
Columbia Review, Pequod, Seneca Review, Southern Poetry Review, among
other journals, and the anthologies Premonitions: A Collection of
Contemporary Asian American Poetry and On A Bed Of Rice: Asian
American Erotica.